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Thread #109339 Message #2284893
Posted By: MartinRyan
10-Mar-08 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Dick Darby the Cobbler
Subject: RE: Help with 'Dick Darby the Cobbler'
Verrrry interesting.... as they used to say on the Rowan and Martin Laugh-in . My understanding was that this was essentially a 19C. American vaudeville song - which is not to say it didn't have broadsheet antecedents.